ARGENTINA: The Church Defies Per

Under a grey late-afternoon sky, some 15,000 hymn-chanting men and
women paraded in downtown Buenos Aires last week, following a sound
truck manned by priests.

Traditionally, the Holy Thursday procession of Buenos Aires' Roman
Catholics marches 13 blocks, from Congress Square to the spacious Plaza
de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed
only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from
the Plaza. Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt. But
some of the younger men, alert as scouts advancing into enemy
territory, pushed on to...